of the possession of the authorised Version by intolerant Roman Catholic priests, the announcement of Mr. Sidden becomes very startling. We have no intention of procuring Martini's Bible, although he has informed us where it is sold; for we have no doubt that it is remarkably accommodated to Papistical dogmas, therefore most perversely translated, otherwise it would not have obtained the sanction of Pius. Mr. Perceval, in a very plain way, has, most sensibly opposed the proselytizing endeavours of Mr. Sidden: he has shewn, by the decisions of some of the early Ecumenical Councils, that Mr. Sidden must rightly be esteemed a heretic. He has called the attention of his readers to St. Paul's words in Rom. xvi. 17, 18, and demonstrated their application to the turbulent and schismatical acts of the Romanists. He has urged, that if on the plea that St. Peter founded the Church at Rome, the possessors of its Pontifical chair claims to be his successors, so, as St. Paul is historically asserted to have founded the English Church, the Bishops of this Church may equally claim to be accounted St. Paul's successors;-furthermore, he argues that these self-styled successors of St. Peter, and their subordinate agents, are guilty continually of the very act for which St. Paul openly reproved St. Peter (Gal. ii. 11, 12), and fall under the Apostolic censure in 1 Cor. i. 10, 13: iii. 3, 4.

In disproof of Mr. Sidden's preceding statement, Mr. Perceval appeals to the facts of the Roman priesthood throwing into the fire every copy of the English Bible which they can find; and of the Roman Catholic translations being made from the Latin Vulgate, which is itself exceedingly corrupt. Our translations, on the contrary, are made from the original tongues, and are similar, word for word, to the first impression. The Clergy of the Church of England also, are bound only to preach such things, as they conclude may be proved by the Scriptures; but those of the Church of Rome must teach, as of equal value with the inspired Scriptures, whatever the Church of Rome, for the time being, shall choose to call Apostolic tradition. Hence errors and false doctrines have profusely sprung.

Every part of Mr. Sidden's affirmations is overthrown, and into a very small compass Mr. Perceval has condensed a useful and great body of historical matter. Transubstantiation, Purgatory, and the other religious fictions of this apostate Church are exposed, and a reference to the Scriptures, as the only appeal, is strenuously recommended. We know not when we have seen so much of sterling value, of plain but unanswerable argument, so well accommodated to every one's comprehension. We trust, that with Mr. Perceval's permission, the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge will circulate the letter far and wide: it is worth a myriad of the mawkish tracts which are constantly disseminated, and are often too weakly written to carry conviction with them. If those who have read and may read this able and encyclic epistle, have not been, and will not be convinced by it, either prejudice or judicial blindness must be the cause of their denseness. It is worthy to be ranked among the best apologies of our Faith, and is deserving of thanks from all to whom our ancient and holy institutions are dear.

Scobell's Christ in the Wilderness. London: 1838.

THIS little volume contains six sermons, in which the incidents of the temptation in the wilderness are investigated, and the doctrines therein adduced and applied to the daily discharge of the Christian virtues. The text is taken literally. The enquiry of Hugh Farmer, and the speculation of all those who have considered the words "led up of the Spirit" into the wilderness, to signify the visionary character of the temptation, are entirely neglected by this author, whose aim appears to have been to produce a plain practical application of the precepts to be derived from the literal interpretation of the words. St. John was" in the Spirit" when that great apocalypse-the most wonderful of revelations-opened on his mental sight. St. Peter was "in the Spirit" when the great purpose of the gospel-the bringing in of the heathen to the fold of Christ was rendered evident to his spiritual eye; and many learned and orthodox Churchmen are inclined to believe it was "in the Spirit" that Christ was led "of the Spirit"-"to be tempted of the devil," for it revolts them to contemplate this "pitched battle between the spirit of evil and the Lord of light." The permitted temptation of Job does not satisfy them, that "the Son of Man" should have been practically given over for a period to the energetic assaults of the evil principle. Nor do they appear to

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feel, in all its force, the necessity or the value of the great lesson inculcated by the temptation in the wilderness,-the preparation for the ministry; the apocalypse of the mission in its perils and dangers, as well as in its results, when angels ministered" to Him who had endured and overcome. That the duty of controversy is imperious, and its use imperative in the elicitation and establishment of truth, we are neither prepared to deny nor inclined to dispute; but a set of sermons like those of Mr. Scobell, to be delivered as these were doubtless intended, during the six Sundays of Lent, can scarcely be too plain in purpose, clear in style, and direct in application. As the addresses of a country pastor to a rural flock, where simple language, familiar illustration, and religious precepts evidently educed and strongly urged, we recommend this little unpretending work.

A Companion to the Book of Common Prayer. By a Member of the Church of England. London: Low, Lamb's Conduit-street. 1838.

Tis little treatise proceeds from the pen of a female. It is a useful and judicious compilation, and proves the Scriptural authority on which our Liturgy rests. The verification of the doctrines contained in the Catechism is well conducted and brought out; and the whole is fitted to be bound up with the Prayer-book. We recommend it to the notice of teachers in Sunday-schools on account of its capacity of grounding the pupils in the Faith, and imbruing them with a reverence for the Scriptural character of the Liturgy: when we add that its references will form an admirable praxis, fixing on the mind both the word of God and our own Ecclesiastical services, and giving an extended range for tuition and instruction, we have pronounced an use to which it may be applied, which should be its recommendation.

Preces, Prayers, Gebete, Modlitedy.—Preces e Liturgis Ecclesia, Catholicæ, Romana, Desumptæ cum earundem versione Anglica Secundum, Liturgiam Ecclesiæ Anglicana. Accedunt versiones duce nova, scilicet, Germanica et Polonica. In usum Germanorum et Polonorum, in Anglia Commorantium: Adjectis. Sententiis sacræ Scripturæ ad Dei cultum et Religione Christianæ principia spectantibus. Solicitudine et cura Jacobi Yates Angli; necnon Consilio atque opera Stephani Mazorch in Seminario Wengroveiensi in Polonia Philosophiæ ac Theologiæ quondam Professoris. Londini Prostant Venales apud J. Mardon, 7, Farringdon-street, et J. Green, 121, Newgatestreet, 1838.

THIS extremely voluminous title-page unfolds the contents of a very small manual of some fifty duodecimo pages, consisting of the sentences before the introite, and the earlier portion of the mass, the prayers and benedictions, all reformed and made to correspond with those portions of our Liturgy in which the priest speaks for the people. The novelty of the volume, therefore, lies in the Polish version, the Latin being reformed from the Vulgate, the English taken from the Book of Common Prayer, and the German from the authorised version. The Lord's prayer in Polish may, as a curiosity, interest some of our readers. Here it is

Ojeze nasz którys' jest n niebiesiech s' wiec' sie imie twoje przyidz' krolestwo twoje; badz' wola twoja jako w nicbie tgk i na ziemi, chleba naszego powszedniego, daj nam dzisiaj i odpus'i' nam nasze wing jako i my odpusizezamy naszym winowajcom. I niedwodz nas poknszenie, ale nas zbau ode zlego. Amen.

The effect of the book is to remind us that with God all languages are indifferent, and that the language of the heart, however clothed, will arise to a throne of grace, and there be understood: how vain are all cavils about words, how deeply important rectitude of thought, the feeling, expressed as it may be, by the most eloquent oration, in the most exquisite of languages, will be equally and no more than equally accepted, with the up-turned eye of the adoring savage, the clasp'd hands and lisping accents of infancy, the rude but honest utterance of the peasant. Language is utterly inadequate to all the depths of fervour to which prayer leads.

"Prayer is the burden of a sigh,
The falling of a tear,

The upward glancing of the eye
When none but God is near."

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POPERY AS IT IS. In a note appended to the 13th chapter and 29th verse of St. Matthew, in M'Namara's Bible, published by the authority of the Bishops and Priests of Ireland, we have a clue to the conspiracies which have been, and are now being entered into, by Romanists against Members of the Protestant Churches. The note reads thus-"The good must tolerate the evil when it is so strong that it cannot be redressed, without danger and disturbing of the Church; otherwise ill men, be they heretics or malefactors, may be punished or suppressed; they may and ought, by public authority, either spiritual or temporal, to be chastised or executed. And, in a note appended to the 27th chapter, and 24th verse of St. Matthew, in the same Bible, we find that Roman Catholic judges and juries are bound not to convict any but Protestants, and that if they act otherwise they are pronounced to be damned. It reads as follows: "All officers, and especially judges and juries, are damned, which execute the laws of temporal princes against Catholic men; for all such are guilty of innocent blood, and are not excused, because they execute other men's wills according to laws which are unjust.”

SECTARIAN INTOLERANCE.-An individual, who is distinguished as a leader amongst "the friends of civil and religious liberty," and who is either a deacon or archdeacon of the Independent chapel which he frequents, was applied to by a poor boy named Catterall, for employment. The terms were fully agreed upon, so far as regarded the six working days in the week, but the master refused to ratify the bargain unless the lad would consent to be at his disposal on the Sabbath, and to attend the sectarian Sunday-school attached to his chapel. The boy very properly refused to accede to these terms until he had consulted his parents, and they having a conscientious objection to the principles taught in the school, could not consent to the proposition, and the boy was obliged to seek employment from masters less infected with liberalism.

THE LATE BISHOP OF MORAY.-The Right Rev. Alexander Jolly, senior Bishop of the Scottish Episcopal Church, was reading the night before his deccase, an old work, entitled "Dice Mori," Learn to die, which he was anxious to finish. He continued reading till a late hour, when he dismissed his servant. In the morning he was found dead, and it appeared, that he had closed his eyes with his own hand, had drawn a napkin over his face, and folded his arms over his breast. Thus closed a life of primitive simplicity, piety, and self-denial, worthy of the purest ages of the Church.

SAMARIA: THE WELL OF JACOB.-I knew there was a difference of opinion as to the precise site of this interesting monument; but when I found myself at the mouth of this well, I had no wish to look farther; I could feel and realize the whole scene; I could see our Saviour coming out from Judea, and travelling along this valley; I could see him wearied with his journey, sitting down on this well to rest and the Samanitan women, as I saw them at every town in the Holy Land, coming out for water. I could imagine his looking up to Mount Gerizim, and predicting the ruin of the Temple, and telling her that the hour was coming when neither on that mountain nor yet in Jerusalem would she worship the God of her fathers. A large column lay across the top of the well, and the mouth was filled up with huge stones. I could see water through the crevices; but, even with the assistance of Paul and the Arabs, found it impossible to remove them. I plucked a wild flower growing in the mouth of the well, and passed on.-Stephens's Incidents of Travel.

HOW TO MAKE A FALSEHOOD BELIEVED.-Our oppositionists either know human nature well, or they pursue instinctively the means adapted to produce their malevolent end. Report and calumniate confidently and diligently no matter if the report be proved false, and the calumny be once formally, distinctly, and authoritatively rebutted on its authors; go on reporting the same tale more confidently and more diligently. It will gradually sink into the minds of men, and there leave a depositum, which will permanently tincture them; and if, from our friends foolishly neglecting these rumours, when first propagated, they are suffered to diffuse themselves without contradiction, as if too foolish to be believed, then the business may be done in less time, and the story will soon gain credit. Wilberforce's Life.

CHURCHES IN LONDON.-The Bishop of London, since his translation to the see of London in 1828, has consecrated 56 churches and chapels. In the ten previous years 31 were consecrated-showing an increase of 25.

CONSUMPTION OF BIBLES IN BRITAIN.-The number of Bibles sold annually in Scotland is rather above 60,000; viz. about 36,000 at 2s. wholesale; 25,000 at 18. 10d; and from 3,000 to 5,000 at 6s. 6d. The number printed annually in England by the King's printers and the two Universities is about 240,000, making in all about 300,000, exclusive of about as many Testaments, and a large number of Prayer-books, Psalms, &c

NATIONAL SCHOOLS.-It may be briefly mentioned with regard to the Church, that the increase in all its schools between the years 1831 and 1837 appears to be, Sunday and daily schools 2,979, with 60,531; scholars and 631 Sunday schools, with 35,517 scholars; and that the total of schools and scholars was as follows, viz. in 12,391 towns, parishes, villages, and hamlets, which possessed schools of some description, there were

Sunday and daily Schools
Sunday Schools

Infant Schools....

10,152 with Scholars 514,450
ditto 438,280

6,068
704

Total, Places 12,391, with Sch. 16,924 and Scholars 996,460

THE LATEST SCHEME OF CHURCH REFORM.-A correspondent of the Times, signed "Holyrood," proposes that an order of baronetcies, the holders to be called "baronets of the cross," be instituted and made purchasable at the sum of 10,0007. each title, the fund to be applied to the augmentation of small livings and the stipends of curates in the Church, so as to provide for the ample religious instruction of the people. Holyrood has no doubt that 15,000,000l. might be raised by his scheme, which he would have paid over to the governors of Queen Anne's Bounty for the purposes aforesaid.

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"THE FINE ARTS IN CONNEXION WITH RELIGION" was received too late.

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THE SERVICE APPOINTEd for the fifth of NOVEMBER.

THERE are few external duties, to which, particularly in the present time, the Clergy are under a deeper obligation to pay attention, than to the Liturgical Services of their Church. The Church of England Quarterly Review has, in more instances than one, called the public observation to the omissions of part of them by some Clergy in a Western Diocese, and a recent author has specified the omission of the Litany, as a portion of the charge. We shall not hesitate to mention the parishes, when we shall become ear-witnesses of the fact.

Inattention to the service appointed for the Fifth of November is, however, of more general occurrence; but it is a service, the reading of which should be enforced authoritatively on the Clergy by every Bishop, and commands should be issued by the two Archbishops, that it be observed in their provinces. If the form of sound words be disregarded, it will not be long ere the sound words themselves become of no repute. When we consider the rapid and enormous strides which Popery is making towards the subjugation of the Christian world, a service, which recalls to mind its murderous designs, and is commemorative of the preserving act of Divine Providence, should not be passed by "as it were a tale that is told," or be suffered to be regarded by the rising generation simply as an historic event, which was stirring indeed in its day, but now is defunct in interest. If ever there was a time since the period itself, when the popish plot should be brought to open view, and the service appointed by the Church should be read in all the Churches in the land, it is the present, when the same desire of spiritual pre-eminence--the same detestation of Protestantism, manifested by the same violence of persecution in Ireland, is witnessed with all the effrontery of a party, which expects to be dominant and seeks to undermine the Parliament, but in a different way, by a preponderating influence unduly obtained in the Commons, and the oft-uttered threat of

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